Stefan Zweig

Stefan Zweig (28.11.1881, the [Vienna] - 22/02/1942 Year [Petropolis, Brazil])

. Born in patchwork Habsburg monarchy, . from a young age, he felt himself a man not so much the Austrian or German culture, . as spiritual son of the Europe, . which did not know zakolyuchennyh borders and ferocious customs, . but swelled by mutual distrust, . led to an explosion in 1914.,

. When the guns fell silent, and from Austria-Hungary remained a fragment, not knowing what to do with independence, Zweig like a true dissident, once again, raised his glass to the success of a hopeless case. "

. In 1920 he became embarrassingly famous
. With his characteristic sobriety Zweig explains the success of particular concern for the reader: like a sculptor, he was "unnecessary" from the original text, transforming it into a capacious small book.

The secret of success Zweig - in the mental health of his books. He wrote a lot about the painful events of the psyche, but few writers of the time remained a disturbing charge Enlightenment optimism, as Zweig. For the little man, weighed down by the economic crisis, the tyranny, the war, his books were gulps of oxygen.

The last years of his life Zweig marred by the onset of Hitler. It is equally sad to observe an ass carelessness fellow citizens - even in Austria, the Jews did not believe that they can find trouble. Like a pre-preparation for death, Zweig was in a hurry to write "Yesterday's World (Memoirs of a European) - Requiem for a civilization that was so fond of.

When it became clear that Germany will absorb Austria, Zweig falter. Old Europeans could not stand for the second quarter of a century triumph of obscurantism - and left home. And four years later in a remote Brazilian voluntarily departed this life, bequeathing the rest of the "wait for the dawn."

Europeans such as Stefan Zweig, long gone. They did not become after the Second World War. The spiritual climate of the current EU suspiciously resembles the Soviet model - not so much "the rise and convergence of equal cultures, as frustrating leveling. It seems that the intellectuals of Europe has forgotten its role in favor of two false alternatives - highbrow elitist and narrow-minded pragmatism.

Zweig who rejected both of these extremes, now classifiers is listed under the heading "middle Writers. Well, if the "average" writer bothered to read at least half of those for whom the detectives were middling top literary thought.